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Ideas for 'works', 'Identity and Existence in Logic' and 'Causal Explanation'

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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / a. Nature of abstracta

9607	The greatest discovery in human thought is Plato's discovery of abstract objects [Brown,JR on Plato]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 4. Impossible objects

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's is non-existent' cannot be said if 's' does not designate [Anderson,CA]

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We cannot pick out a thing and deny its existence, but we can say a concept doesn't correspond [Anderson,CA]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation

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We can grasp whole things in science, because they have a mathematics and a teleology [Plato, by Koslicki]

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Individuation was a problem for medievals, then Leibniz, then Frege, then Wittgenstein (somewhat) [Anderson,CA]